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I’m partly cross with myself because if I hadn’t have had post natal depression/anxiety/OCD after I’d had him and pushed myself to breastfeed instead of giving him formula he might not have had reflux in the first place and had to have taken medicines. I feel like I’ve made a mess of everything and can’t do anything right I feel like everything I do is going to hurt him in some way. I feel like I’m going to make him miserable.
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No you're not. That is, as some of my family would say, "silly talk".
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I would not worry about the Ranitidine. He only took it a week, and it's still unclear what is going on with the medication, anyway. The FDA did say that the company that discovered the problem was using a testing method that skewed the results higher. Apparently the contamination is not as great as those tests showed.
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Worth remembering this about Ranitidine:
https://www.nomorepanic.co.uk/showth...nitidine-scare
It's only a possibility and even then previous recalls along the same lines with BP meds found it isolated to certain manufacturers and the risk still extremely low.
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I’m partly cross with myself because if I hadn’t have had post natal depression/anxiety/OCD after I’d had him and pushed myself to breastfeed instead of giving him formula he might not have had reflux in the first place and had to have taken medicines. I feel like I’ve made a mess of everything and can’t do anything right I feel like everything I do is going to hurt him in some way. I feel like I’m going to make him miserable.
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This makes me so sad as a mother who also suffered with horrible postpartum anxiety. I can feel your pain and sadness, but it's all from the anxiety - which you are still suffering with. My anxiety started postpartum and I have only just recently felt that I've clicked back into place - FIVE YEARS later.
I live in the US and it is exceptionally common for babies to be put on Zantac for MONTHS at a time. Doctors here are extremely liberal with prescribing it.
But, your fears are definitely stemming from the anxiety not from any real danger you've put your baby in. Motherhood is SO HARD. The love we have for our babies is overwhelming and terrifying at times and can make us feel so so inadequate. I look back and regret that I continued breastfeeding because I think it contributed so much to my postpartum anxiety since I never got a break or rest and my body was not my own for so long. I think about how much time I spent crying or panicking when I should have been enjoying my daugther. No matter what we do, we'll find a way to beat ourselves up for it.
You are not going to hurt your baby or make him miserable. I promise. If you can, seek out help for the anxiety. I started seeing a therapist when my daughter was around 14 months old and it helped tremendously. My anxiety would come back on and off, but I could never have functioned without that help. My daughter just started Kindergarten and I went back to school and I finally feel like I've come out of the fog.
Give yourself a break. Motherhood is a total mind ****. Finding things that make you happy/give you a break/make you feel like yourself can help.
Good luck!
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Wow I had no idea about ranitidine being recalled. Mothers up and down the country must be in a state of worry because so many children were given it as babies. And it worked and made theirs and your children less poorly. It’s been prescribed for years, I really would not give it another thought. My Dad smoked around me all my life, there’s nothing I can do about that. I’m sure it didn’t help my childhood asthma either....
On another level, what helps you relax? There are things you can do while you’re waiting for cbt.
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Thank you everyone, there’s pretty much nothing that helps me relax. The only thing that stops me thinking is if I have my earphones in and music on incredibly loud so I can’t possibly think of anything else at the same time. My partner is completely oblivious to how much I’m hurting and I can’t talk to my mum and dad because I don’t want to upset them that’s why I’m here talking to people I don’t know and you’re all so lovely taking the time to reply. Every day that goes by I worry about something different. People I work with are very different to me, they have a lot more money and probably did things with their children much better than I have done. My really good friend is a teacher there and she had her son the same time as I had mine and she’s still breastfeeding him at 2 and a never give him a microwave meal in a plastic dish, all his food is fresh and home made.
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Please stop punishing yourself? You're doing your best, and I bet your friend has her own worries and inadequacies.
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Comparisons are never helpful.
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she’s still breastfeeding him at 2 and a never give him a microwave meal in a plastic dish, all his food is fresh and home made.
I would hazard a guess that this is actually unusual and to be honest I think your friend is setting herself up to feel inadequate at some point....
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Comparisons are never helpful.
I would hazard a guess that this is actually unusual and to be honest I think your friend is setting herself up to feel inadequate at some point....
Bitty :ohmy::blush:
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